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Kate's Patio Garden and Extras |
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This is the view I see if I stand up behind my desk and aim the camera over the computer. At least, this is the view in summer. |
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However, since it is now winter--this is the view I had on January 21, 2003. It is dark, grey and dismal since it is snowing through the fog. |
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Same tomato plant in the corner, later in the season. Note the first ripe tomato from my plant, picked and sitting on the railing. Not the first tomato I ate, that one was fried green. The supports were for holding up the vines, not for pretty. |
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In this shot you can see the snow where it is piling up in the spaces of the lattice. That's one of my neighbors walking by. |
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I got a total of 24 tomatoes this past summer. I didn't figure that was too bad for growing in a large plastic planter on my patio. The plant got about a foot or so taller before it quit. Well, it's not so much it quit; it got frozen out. We had a hard freeze in October. This was a Beefmaster, or so I was told. For most of the season I had 10 to 12 tomatoes on the vine at any one time. I'd pick one or two and two to three would set on. |
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My "Front Garden" consists of a pot of herbs, a flowering bush that came with the apartment, some "Hen and Chicks" that came with the apartment and a cement cat. |
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This is the view West from my patio. The onions are "Walking" or "Egyptian" onions, also known (I think) as everbearing green onions. I cut them extensively in the early spring for green onions, leaving one or two good stalks for later developement. Then when they get the little onion bulblets on top later....usually the second year.......I use them, or some of them, and plant or swap the rest. The white pot on the top shelf is lemon balm. |
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The same planter, pulled up close to the house for more protection. Note the little green spears of chives beginning to come out. The yellow-green leaves in the back are variegated sage. The other little set of twigs is thyme. |
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Some of my onion plants February 9, 03. There are a few little spears up an inch or two, but they don't show. Hurry, hurry! |
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Taken from just outside my patio door looking in on February 9, 2003. You can see the top of my computer behind the shelf. |
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